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Van Kampen diagram drawing

Hi Nsk92, I just wanted to ask you how you drew the van Kampen diagram here [1] and if I could do it in a similar way. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.244.105.224 (talk) 16:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

It was a while ago, but as I remember, I drew that figure using Xfig. At the time my office computer had a Linux operating system and running Xfig was not a problem. It is also possible to install Xfig on a Mac or a Windows computer, but that requires a bit of extra work. compared to Linux-based operating systems. Nsk92 (talk) 21:22, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi Nsk92, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 06:44, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

OK, thanks! Nsk92 (talk) 11:55, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Categories

Hi Nsk92, categories of the article Vugar Ismailov are mainly Azerbaijani-related. If any category is not adequate, I can remove it. Ismailov manages the Proceedings of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, NAS of Azerbaijan. This is the only journal of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, which is indexed in Web of Science. He also serves as an editor of leading mathematics journals published in Azerbaijan (such as Azerbaijan Journal of Mathematics, etc.). He is also the Azerbaijani scientist with the lowest Erdos number. Thank you for reading. Vmash (talk) 09:24, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Look, whomever you are: These arguments should have been brought up in the AfD, before the rain of sockpuppetry and other disruption came down. Incidentally, having Erdos number 2 is not an indicator of notability. WP:PROF explicitly says that having a small collaboration distance from a famous researcher, in particular having a small Erdos number, does not make one academically notable. However, the arguments about editorships of journals are serious and substantive arguments, and, had they been brought up in the AfD at the proper time, it is quite possible that the article might have been kept. However, now that it has been deleted, you cannot just keep re-creating it using obvious wp:sock accounts -- it will just be speedily deleted again. The correct procedure in this situation is for the User:AynuraJafarova account to wait until the expiration of the current two-week block on that account. Then, once unblocked, User:AynuraJafarova (while logged in as User:AynuraJafarova ) can place a request at WP:DRV to have the Vugar Ismailov re-created and to specifically raise new notability arguments that were not presented in the AfD, namely the arguments about journal editorships. There will be then a discussion at WP:DRV and if a consensus is obtained to allow re-creation of the article in the mainspace, then the article will be allowed to be re-created. That is the proper procedure to follow in this situation. But, if more new sock accounts try again and again re-create the article in the mainspace, not only will it keep getting speedily deleted, but the User:AynuraJafarova will be indefinitely blocked (instead of the current two weeks block). Nsk92 (talk) 11:45, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

GScholar question

Hi, I'm wondering if you could help me figure out the h-index for "Ronald Smelser", as I can see you have expertise in this area (followed here from an AfD discussion). I've been trying to do a draft for a while, and I wonder if he'd qualify under WP:PROF or WP:NAUTHOR. He is the author, with a co-author, of the The Myth of the Eastern Front. Help figuring this out would be appreciated, as Smelser apparently does not have an individual profile on GScholar. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:24, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

This is one of those cases where GScholar displayed the results in a particularly unhelpful manner:[2]. First, one needs to disregard the results related the physicist Ronald E Smelser, such items number 1 and 2 in the GScholar search. Another problem here is that for some reason after that GScholar does not display the items in the decreasing order of the citation hits, and one needs to reorder them manually. When I did that myself, for the citation hits related to Ronald Smelser you describe above, I got: 91, 49, 36, 36, 34, 28, 23, 22, 21, 21, 13, 12, 9, 9, 6,..., which gives him a GScholar h-index of 11 (if I did not miss/mix up anything). That's actually quite high for a historian. In general, for someone in the humanities, h-index is not a particularly good indicator of academic notability per WP:PROF and it is better to look at other factors, such as, for example, reviews of books that he has written, library holdings of his books, editorships of journals/books, etc. Still, to the extent you may want to invoke h-index in the context of WP:PROF, a GScholar h-index of 11 is fairly high for a historian. Nsk92 (talk) 09:04, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Note also that according to this[3] he is a past President of the German Studies Association, which is also confirmed here[4]; that's another indicator of academic notability per WP:PROF#C6. Nsk92 (talk) 12:32, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Great, thanks for the feedback! K.e.coffman (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Math Powerland

I'm contesting the deletion. This is not vandalism or a hoax. I'm a newb at editing wikipedia. I am looking for sources to site and plan on expanding the article. Steveengelhardt (talk) 02:43, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

RfC for page patroller qualifications

Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

discuss for page Bruce Q. Lan

Hello, Nsk92, the website AADCU Has been exsited for over 10 years, now seems a dead link,but maybe still can trace some log on google, AADCU was a very known web source in the architectural community, now i heard they are in rebuild process, so should I delet the link source in the article about Bruce Q. Lan, please advice... Thanks! Susanzone77 (talk) 08:45, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hello Nsk92. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

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PS: A detailed summary/check list has been deliberately not made because that is then all people read and they then do not bother to read the important details. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:44, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Just been uploading a page pander rock duo. Having had 500 international interviews it warrants to have a page with details for people

Captain raw (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

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New Page Review - newsletter

Hello Nsk92,

Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have 804 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.

Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

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Contesting Deletion of the page on Anisha Acharya

Hi Nsk92 - As a part of Wikipedia Asia Month, I am participating in Women in Red campaign. Anisha Acharya is an Indian woman with significant achievement that deserves to the mentioned. Day One is not her only short movie and her other works have also been recognized. Thanks! --Parul Thakur (talk) 04:59, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Harringay Tigers

You wanted to get in touch? About the review??

Email: The Wikipedia page Harringay Tigers (speedway) has been changed on 27 November 2016 by Nsk92, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harringay_Tigers_(speedway) for the current revision.

Editor's summary: -

Contact the editor: mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Nsk92 wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nsk92

HughJLF (talk) 11:28, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

No, not particularly. I simply reviewed your new article yesterday as a part of doing NPP. Everything looked in order, for a basic stub-class article. Nsk92 (talk) 13:39, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Ok, great. I had the email I copied above which suggested that I needed to get in touch. I guess it's just a default standard. Thanks for doing the review. HughJLF (talk) 13:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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New Page Review - newsletter #2

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Weigh-in Needed from Eds with Science Background

The issue of "junk journals" has come-up in a scientist-related AfD, e.g. my latest comment. I don't think this is receiving due consideration from many of the panelists, but would appreciate a heads-up in case I'm over-emphasizing this. Thanks. Agricola44 (talk) 20:12, 11 December 2016 (UTC).

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Hello, Nsk92. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Despite its fairly high impact factor, the Bulletin of AMS is not comparable to journals like Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones and the Journal of AMS in terms of prestige. Bulletin of AMS is specifically dedicated to publishing expository/survey articles and book reviews, and does not publish original research as such. That's why BAMS has fairly high impact factor: the survey/expository articles published there are frequently used as general background references. Publishing a paper in BLMS provides a useful service to mathematical community, but it is not comparable to publishing a paper in Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones or the Journal of AMS, which only accept papers proving particularly important new mathematical results. Bauer's paper in BAMS is an expository paper on constructive mathematics. Nsk92 (talk) 14:38, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

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A HUGE backlog

We now have 804 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
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Second set of eyes

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Abuse

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New Page Review - newsletter No.3

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Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

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County highway 34

Do you happen to know how I would go about creating a highway shield for the top of the page? Thanks Tripp155 (talk) 22:36, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by a ``highway shield". The article County Route 34(Otsego County, New York) already has an infobox. Do you mean adding an image to that infobox? Nsk92 (talk) 21:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Page - GRC Envelop

Hi Nsk92, being an open source project, there is very little mention of this tool. I have added one mention to the page. There was a vendor presentation at IIA Madras but they have not mentioned it clearly on their website. Can I add this as a reference too? Let me know if this is not sufficient to retain this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathayi2000 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion, the sources you have in the article do not establish notability of GRC Envelop. You need to find something like published reviews, published in industry publications/maganizes, or some substantial coverage in newspaper articles or something similar. WP:GNG explains these requirements in more detail. However, note that the article is currently WP:PRODed. Anyone, including you, who objects to the proposed deletion for any reason, may remove the PROD tag from the article. You do not need anyone's permission to do that. (But if the article is subsequently listed of WP:AfD, it would be a different matter then.) Nsk92 (talk) 19:57, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Cuban civil code

Hello, many thanks for your help in this work, now I put some sources in the page and I think that the tag can be remove. I wait your answer, and thanks again. --Al-Baco (talk) 16:21, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

I see that you have added some citations to the article, but their format/citation style is problematic. Please look up Wikipedia:Citing sources, Help:Referencing for beginners and Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods for explanations and examples of how to cite sources. (In particular, bare urls should be avoided). Nsk92 (talk) 16:36, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Instead of using page curation to add the {{stub}} template, like you did at Justin Basini, please stub sort instead. Thanks. -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 23:33, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

In a word -- NO. I only add sub templates as a part of WP:NPP. When I do new page patrolling, I move along the new pages feed pretty quickly and don't have time to deal with things like stub sorting, which require manual editing. So stub sorting is not for me -- I'll stick to doing what I do and will not do any stub sorting. Nsk92 (talk) 23:39, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Firstly, you are very lucky that I thought to check this after you added another {{stub}}---I really do forget to check, which why I have both a signature line and a {{Usertalkback}} requesting a [[WP:PING|ping}}. It doesn't take long at all to type {{re|I dream of horses}} if you're really in a hurry. Also, being a rather experienced netizen, I read "NO" as someone shouting at me, and felt a bit startled by that. Don't worry, I've calmed, but it's something to consider for future interactions with people online.

Secondly, something about this doesn't sit right with me. I've heard "I don't know where to sort stubs all the time, so I use {{stub}} instead" (understandable, kind of why {{stub}} exists as well). It seems like you prioritize the speed of which you patrol articles. Perhaps you're prioritizing speed too much. As a new page patroller, I understand the new page backlog is absolutely huge. There are many reasons for this, including a lack of new page patrollers. Another reason for this is that new page patrolling takes time. You need to check the sources (that can take a lot of time with enough sources), you need to see if the article needs templates, and you need to see if the article needs to be nominated for deletion. New page patrolling takes enough time that I don't think the time it takes to stub sort shouldn't be much of a problem. If stub sorting would slow you down, perhaps you're going too quickly.  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 01:13, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

As I said, thanks but no, thanks. Until they integrate stub sorting in the curation tool, I will not do it. Nsk92 (talk) 01:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Again, I need you to ping me, as I've already asked you already quite politely (and remind you automatically when I sign).

My frustration is that you're not using {{stub}} for its' intended use. {{stub}}, and its associated category Category:Stubs is intended to be used when someone doesn't know how to stub sort a specific article, if they know how to stub sort at all. If I'm not mistaken, you seem to be using {{stub}} to save time.

Can I ask you aren't willing to manually edit when NPP'ing? Is it really all about getting to the next article as soon as possible?  I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 04:45, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

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Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 804 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

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Forum shopping

I wouldn't exactly say moving the WT:PROF discussion to WP:VPPR was blatant forum shopping because VPPR is more-watched so a wider audience hear the proposal. DrStrauss talk 14:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

You have suggested modifying a specific notability guideline in a specific way. The proper place to do that is at the talk page of that guideline (even if there are other pages which are watched by a larger number of people), and your original placement of the RfC there was correct and proper. The discussion, at least thus far, has been largely not going your way. Now you moved the discussion to another forum. That's exactly what forum shopping is, and it's particularly inappropriate for you, as the initiator of the RfC with an interest in a specific outcome, to effect such a move. I suggest that instead you post a short note at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) saying that there is an ongoing RfC about modifying a provision of WP:PROF, and provide a link to the RfC. But moving an in-progress RfC is inappropriate. Nsk92 (talk) 14:39, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Backlog update:

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Login?

I can't! I recently took a wiki break and won't be able to login till the 10th of November. The RfA can't wait and I intend to express my support for the candidate. Check my talk page. Mahveotm

Don't worry, I bypassed it using mobile! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.34.51 (talk) 23:51, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Err, not sure what the comments above mean, but if you can't log in, you can't vote in an RfA, period, and the reasons why you can't log in don't matter. Nsk92 (talk) 23:57, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Disambiguation links to Hecke algebra

Can you fix the disambiguation link to Hecke algebra in Rostislav Grigorchuk? Cheers! bd2412 T 17:47, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, done. Nsk92 (talk) 18:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! bd2412 T 19:29, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
• Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

• If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

• A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
• Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

• ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
• The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1^st and run until January 29^th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

• The total number of reviews completed for the month.
• The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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Help : review article

Hi Let me introduce myself. I am Felix and I’m a novice in Wikipedia ! I wrote an article recently, it’s a biography of a french-american journalist : Laura Haim. Now, I’m waiting for validation from wikipedian reviewer. Would you be able to help me? I have no idea how long it could take… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Laura_Haim Many thanks for your help. Best

Felix — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billybon (talk • contribs) 17:00, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Nsk92, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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